Product Manager Development Associate

FINRA Technology is proud to offer our Product Manager Development Program - a two-year rotational opportunity open to recent graduates with a bachelor's or master's degree and professionals seeking an exciting career in Product Management. Applications are now being accepted for the program, which will begin September 2024.

The Product Management Development (PMD) program seeks to develop new product managers through: guided product management curriculum, mentorship, intentional community, and two - 6 month - rotations to work on a variety of products which deliver value across many areas of FINRA, including Regulatory Operations, Market Regulation, and Enterprise Technology. After completing the two rotations, PMD Associates will join their permanent team and have continued mentorship, curriculum learning, and community through the PMD program for the following year. Through this immersive experience, Associates will learn how to drive product development, analyze customer data, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative products and features to FINRA's stakeholders.

The Product Manager Development Associate supports the process of defining product and product feature requirements and communicating those requirements to user experience and technology delivery teams. This includes leveraging user feedback, business strategy, data/analytics, and input from design and technology teams to develop features that result in seamless user experiences.

Essential Job Functions:

• Supports the planning process by developing requirements documents (user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases) for product features
• Perform support duties in order to help the user community and gain experience in how the product is used.
• Develop understanding of FINRA technology approaches and Agile methodologies.
• Report status updates and any issues on a regular basis.
• Support User Acceptance Testing initiatives.
• Document requirements, conduct data analysis, and update/produce user documentation.
• Perform support duties in order to help the user community and gain experience in how the product is used.
• Create, maintain, and track project plans with direction from Agile team leads/management.
• Research new and enhanced technologies and make recommendations to improve program and system quality, economy, and efficiency as well as providing support during implementation.
• Assist in development of training programs, documents, and materials.
• Support User Acceptance Testing initiatives.
• Ensure documents are updated to FINRA standards for requirements, design, and testing.
• Develop reports, charts, graphs, and process maps and maintain data files.
• User Insight & Product Definition
• Assists with experiments and participates in primary research to uncover additional user value and determine new features
• Supports the process of developing the product roadmap by providing input related to individual product features that has a more immediate, near-term, impact
• Coordinates with others on dependencies that impact individual product features
• Makes recommendations for the prioritization of the product backlog supported
• Determines release goals, implementation, and iteration plans for product features according to user value
• Facilitates the development process by reviewing demos with the technology team and validating acceptance criteria for product features
• Tracks development work and identifies bugs at a feature level
• Identifies issues that will keep the feature from delivering on time or at the right level of quality and communicates to leadership
• Works with internal teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve feature-level user issues
• Works with stakeholder teams to actively monitor metrics
• Attends business reviews, supplying product/feature results as necessary; provides input into business cases when new products/features are being developed
• Follow, understand, and apply relevant industry trends, research, and best practices in technology and product management

Other Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least one (1) year of related experience, or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with no related experience, or equivalent training and / or work experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency with use of a desktop computer, and the full suite of electronic office product applications.
• Should be well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of at least one programming language preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Ability to work in a hybrid work environment with travel (20-30%)

For work that is performed in CA, CO, New York, NY and WA, the chart below outlines the proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons

California: Minimum of $63,600, Maximum of $122,300

Colorado: Minimum of $57,500, Maximum of $101,900

New York, NY: Minimum of $69,000, Maximum of $122,300

Washington St: Minimum of $57,500, Maximum of $117,100

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement and many other benefits.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

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